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Monday, April 25, 2016

Parvin Sultana

In the last two
months the country has witnessed fervent battles in the name of nationalism. We
have unwittingly entered a competition of proving who is a greater ‘deshbhakt’
and who is a greater ‘deshdrohi’. While the 9th February
incident in JNU accentuated the developments, hypernationalism was well on its
way since quite some time. We should not forget how Ambedkar Periyar Study
Circle, a students’ organisation of Madras IIT was targeted and how Rohith
Vemula and others of Ambedkar Studies
Circle of University of Hyderabad
were also marked as anti-nationals.

Friday, April 15, 2016

The
19th century Maharashtra was
dominated by Brahmanical ideology and dominance of upper caste over social,
cultural, economic and political facets. The oppressed and deprived sections of
the society could not find their space in the Hindu social system, which
resulted into the lack of assertion against their deprivation, and elimination
of basic human rights. Many anti-social practices were not only prevailed but
they found their sanctity from the Hindu social structure and dominant class of
this system. Rationality and reason which is considered as values necessary for
making ‘thinking individual’ was lacking in this system. In such conditions,
raising voice against these anti-social practices, and working immensely for
empowerment and assertion of deprived sections was really an intricate
responsibility. Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule accepted this challenge,
confronted against oppressive social system, and believed ‘education’ as a tool
to empower the deprived.

Friday, April 8, 2016

-Balu S.

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USA has been
incorrectly referred to as the oldest democracy in the world. The truth is
Universal Adult Franchise did not exist in the country until late 1960s, when
massive civil rights movement forced the federal government to enact laws
enforcing voting rights for every citizen. The state of democracy in USA can be
termed as a plutocracy, which is a form of oligarchy controlled by a small
minority of the wealthiest citizens. The
most tangible evidence for this is the wealth of the members of US Congress.
Out of the total 538 members in US Congress, 268 are millionaires.

Editorial

How do we see the world? It is neither a gaze, nor is it to invent the predetermined truth, it is to intervene from a position. Our seeing is changing at the same time and without any claim to excavate the unadulterated truth that never existed.
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